HOURS OF CABARETS.
SUNDAY DANCING ALLEGED. COMPLAINTS TO CITY COUNCIL. MORE SUPERVISION URGED. Two complaints that cabarets in the city wore .-illow.od to remain open into the early hours of Sunday morning were received by the City Council last overling. The secretary of the New Zealand Alliance, Auckland area, wrote urging the need of greater care in issuing licences for cabarets and dance halls, ami stating that members of the organisation were of opinion that licences should not be issued to halls or cabarets where the supply of liquor to young women and girls was permitted. It was also urged that there should be proper supervision of such places by officers of the council. He added that it was stated the licences permitted the cabarets to bo open until 2.30 a.m. on Sundays, and it was urged that all cabarets should be compelled to close at midnight on Saturday, The Ponsoubv branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union forwarded a protest in which it was alleged that dancing was conducted at a city theatre until about 2 a.m. on Sundays, and requesting I that tho practice be stopped. ; Tho letters were referred to the Legal j and By-laws Committee, with power to j act.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 10
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204HOURS OF CABARETS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20987, 25 September 1931, Page 10
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